A journey into Aphrodite's garden where we are all Her flowers - diverse, unique, colourful, beautiful. Come explore Aphrodite and all Her splendours.

Friday, 8 January 2010

Friday's Flower

Apologies that Friday's Flowers have been missing for several weeks. Tanisha and I have both been very busy with the holidays and New Year. Now that we're in the New Year, we both plan to share more about Aphrodite and our paths with Her in the coming weeks and months.

For this Friday's Flower, a poem by Victor James Daley:-

Aphrodite

On a golden dawn in the dawn sublimeOf years ere the stars had ceased to sing,Beautiful out of the sea-deeps coldAphrodite arose—the Flower of Time—That, dear till the day of her blossoming,The old, old Sea had borne in his heart.Around her worshipping waves did partTremulous—glowing in rose and gold. And the birds broke forth into singing sweet,And flowers born scentless breathed perfume:Softly she smiled upon Man forlorn,And the music of love in his wild heart beat,And down to the pit went his gods of gloom,And earth grew bright and fair as a bride,And folk in star-worlds wondering cried—“Lo in the skies a new star is born!”

O Beloved, thus on my small world youRose, flushing it all with rosy flame!Changing sad thoughts to a singing throng,And creating the earth and the sky anew!As Love you appeared—and, lo, you are Fame,And, all my follies and sins despite,You yet, Beloved, may see my light—Small, but a star—mid the stars of song.